Legal Opinion
Prison Legal News v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 17, 2018No. 15-14220PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ED CARNES, Chief Judge:
From time to time we have all followed the advice of Oscar Wilde and gotten rid of temptation by yielding to it. Yielding to the temptation to commit an act that the law forbids can lead to bad consequences, including imprisonment. Prison officials have the duty to reduce the temptation for prisoners to commit more crimes and to curtail their access to the means of committing them. The Constitution does place some limits on the measures that corrections officials may use to carry out that duty, which is what this case is about.
The Florida Department of Corrections has…
2Cases cited42 opinions
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